medium

viestin, tiedotusväline

puolikypsä

keskiväli puhekieltä The nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
(senseid)puhekieltä The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
Francis Bacon

Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.

I must bring together / All these extremes; and must remove all mediums.

In some instances one can take advantage of differential carbohydrate fermentation capabilities of microorganisms by incorporating one or more carbohydrates in the medium along with a suitable pH indicator. Such media are called differential media (e.g., eosin methylene blue or MacConkey agar) and are commonly used to isolate enteric bacilli.

Acrylics, oils, charcoal and gouache are all mediums I used in my painting.

a happy medium

The just medium (..) lies between pride and abjection.

a medium of six years of war, and six years of peace

Het is zeer aannemelijk dat sommige talen zich er beter toe lenen dan andere, als medium voor het logisch denken dienst te doen.

:It is very probable that some language are more suitable to being used as a medium for logical thinking than others are.

Ze noemden dit transparante medium de ether en gingen ervan uit dat de hele ruimte ervan doordrongen was.

:They called this transparent medium aether and assumed that all of space was completely pervaded by it.